Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is the infrastructure-as-a-service offering from Amazon Web Services. EC2 provides users with access to scalable compute capacity in the cloud, and is well known for allowing organizations to deploy web-scale cloud applications and services.
AWS was the first major player in the cloud computing game, with the Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) getting an early start on the competition in 2006. While a bit more complicated than rivals such as Microsoft Azure VM, AWS EC2 provides a feature-rich, highly-configurable, and powerful platform that allows for a high degree of customization.

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